My experience is there is nowhere to escape the thump-thump of subsonic bass pulses. I've camped way out in walk-in camping and still feel it in my body. I don't think I'm overly sensitive, but the sonic aspects of BM are one of the survival challenges. I've never left there without going somewhere ...

Aaarrrgh!! I said 'vibe'. My brain is shrinking, shrinking.... Love and peace are kind of a side-effect of minimal rules. Of course, you could also argue that after beating people with foam bats, or riding your bike all over a hot, dusty plain for hours n hours, or seeing juicy acts of total abandon...

I have never been to BM, and I really hope to one day (unfortunately I live in Australia). From what I can tell the BM experience is like one big happy caring family. But I would have to say that I am a little dissapointed that when all you burners get back to the real world and congregate here on ...

Having said that I get the impression that the criteria is going to be a bit more stringent which translates (in my mind) into the need for some serious creativity in order to pass muster. Never having captained an 'art' vehicle aside from my own derrier perched atop a bike, I don't know much about...

I don't find electric golf carts so objectionable since they are usually pretty slow moving. It's the Ford pickup with a piece of wood on the nose to resemble the prow of a boat. The go-carts and minibikes that go zipping past my campsite all day. Motorcycles suddenly zooming across the playa at 60 ...

I just read the allowed vehicle page and I still wonder at what's allowed and what is pushing the envelope. Sure I get that a totally mutated 4 wheeled vehicle made over into some sublime work of art okayed by the DMV is allowed on the playa. But what about: the guy driving a flying carpet complete ...

I summarize Ric: - burners have no feel for the land they temporarily inhabit aka the playa - they damage it by their presence in such great numbers - they are deranged city dwellers with no country sensibility or connection to the land - country people like Ric have a greater appreciation for their...

My definition of good: what increases my health, wellbeing, security, prosperity, procreation, and status. My definition of bad: whatever interferes with any of the above. I think that is true for all people. We define good and bad in ethical and moral terms in order to enforce group behavioral norm...

I plan to sell my soul to the highest bidder this burn. For sale: slightly used spirit, slightly corrupt but still sound, lots of integrity with plenty of mileage left on the higher centers. Renovated recently, all etheric holes patched. Original owner! Full akashic records, references supplied upon...

>>it dominates the city. i'm pretty sure it dominates the city because the people playing it tend to be the only ones insensitive enough, compared to other musical styles, to inflict their choice on everyone else whether they like it or not. Amen to that. I like electronica too. What gets to me is ...

they toiled long, hard hours in conditions the average, modern hipster could not handle. and as far as heating your house in a snowstorm, while solar won't do it at that moment, a geo-thermal exchanger will. Stuart, I'm familiar with the geothermal application that involves burying hose in the grou...

According to the data provided by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Office of Transportation at http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/iea/table81.html and http://www.ott.doe.gov/facts/archives/fotw220supp.shtml , we've got 1018 billion barrels of oil left in the world and use a little over 50 million bar...

I must apologize to Ramen and SED for over estimating thier intelligence. ...[SNIP]... I like a good debate as well as the next person. I guess what you really don't like is actually having to think your way through an argument, hence your slur on the person rather than their argument, also known a...

Yah sure. You hear this from people who believe in zero-point energy...[snip]... PR lies or collateral effects. So let me understand you here......... Cars cannot run on air? :lol: Good DF. Misquote then attack the poster in terms of the misquote. Classic political strategy. I think that's also cal...

Not true. The oil advertising and media industry sold the world on the idea that it is not possible, but it is and has been proven many times that it could be done. the oil and car industry have bought the pattens and destroyed them to prevent it from being true. Man is much smarter now and can ove...

Man (and woman) has survived many centuries before oil. Plain and simple, It's time for the world to grow up and let the intelligent be creative in the ways they were ment to be creative. there are many alternatives that when combined will and can solve the dependacy on oil. It's up to the most int...